Recently, a German sports brand Adidas used the explosive plastic network to create sports shoes. It is understood that the raw materials used by Adidas to manufacture sports shoes are waste plastics from the sea. Adi hopes to reuse the waste plastics to make people aware of it. Waste plastic can also create value, reduce pollution and damage to the environment.
Adi’s CEO said in an interview that the main material of the pair of environmentally-friendly shoes that Adi has made is processed from waste recycled from the sea and fishing nets on illegal poaching boats. The average cost of these sports shoes is 11 plastics per pair. Bottle. Not only sports shoes, Adi also made jerseys out of plastic waste. In 2016, Adi designed and produced jerseys made of waste plastic for the Real Madrid and Bayern football clubs. According to the data, the waste plastics used in these two jerseys come from Maldives coast. So far, Adi has collected more than 6 billion tons of waste plastic products, providing a new outlet for the flow of waste plastic.
In the past, the disposal methods of waste plastics were roughly the following: Recycling, recycling, landfill landfilling, and ocean inflows. The data shows that the country with the highest recycling rate of plastic waste is Sweden. Sweden has a complete waste recycling system. , It is almost able to recycle all the plastic waste produced by the whole country.
In contrast, the recycling rate of plastic waste in China is relatively low. According to statistics, China uses about 80 million tons of plastic materials each year, and the recycled plastic materials are only 21 million tons. According to this ratio, China’s plastic recycling and reuse The rate is only around 30%, and China produces nearly 100 million tons of garbage each year. In 2016 alone, China produced 14 billion plastic bags, 3.2 billion woven bags and nearly 60 million plastic meals. Box, and most of these plastic wastes have not been recovered, and flowed to the other two methods - landfill landfills and oceans.
Although landfills can solve the problem of landfill pollution, various problems caused by landfills cannot be ignored. It is understood that the largest landfill in China can process about 5,000 tons of garbage per day, and it is necessary to clean the city. Doing a great deal of work, but its impact on the surrounding environment is also obvious. The most direct is the turbulent flow of odor-smoke and turbulent water. Landfill garbage will generate liquefied osmotic fluid, which contains a large amount of toxic and harmful substances. Substances, which are accidentally inundated, will flow underground to pollute groundwater and affect people's lives.
According to relevant environmental protection personnel, there is a giant 'plastic vortex' made of plastic waste between the Hawaiian Islands and the California Peninsula in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The area is equivalent to two US states in Texas. These plastic wastes come from all over the world. Finally, they were brought together by ocean currents. These plastic wastes caused serious damage to the marine ecology. Many marine organisms died of poisoning by eating these plastics.
The use of waste plastics to make garments does not have the above-mentioned problems. After the waste plastics are collected and sent to the processing plant, the labels are removed and cut into thin pieces, which are then melted to make yarns. It will be made into sportswear. The exhaust gas generated during this process will also be collected and treated before reaching the discharge standard. The entire production process will have little impact on the environment.
As Adi launches sports shoes made of plastic, it can be foreseen that the plastic waste landfilled and flowing into the sea will gradually decrease, and the pressure of environmental pollution will gradually be reduced.
Not just for Adidas. For the 2010 World Cup in South Africa alone, Nike has recycled 13 million plastic bottles for its sponsored teams. Sports brands such as Hummer and Reebok have also introduced waste plastics. The shirts worn by the US team in the Rio Olympic men's basketball finals were also made of plastic.
It is a trend for sports brands to use recycled materials to make sportswear. Although for various reasons, these sportswear are not yet energy-produced and they are expensive, they can turn waste plastic into raw materials for production of clothing, and also waste plastics. The treatment provides a new way out.